Elections, who needs them?
That’s President Donald Trump’s staggering take on this year’s all-important midterm elections.
The races will determine which party controls Congress.
During an interview with Reuters that was reported on by Mediaite, Trump talked about how parties in control of the White House historically lose seats in Congress in midterm elections.
Trump has expressed concern that he will be impeached a third time if Republicans lose control of the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate to the Democrats this year.
“It’s some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don’t win the midterms,” he said.
Trump then said that his administration had accomplished so much already that “when you think of it, we shouldn’t even have an election.”
The president caused controversy when he looked to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, which incumbent Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
One poster on X challenged every Republican to denounce the president’s statement about not holding the 2026 midterms.
Said another: “Is nobody reading the article? This seems like a pretty massive red flag.”
Another X user said: “He is not joking.”
When asked about the comment, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “The president was simply joking.”
Trump in the interview also waved off as “fake” a Reuters/Ipsos poll that found that most Americans don’t support an American takeover of Greenland.
The survey showed that just 4% of Americans support the idea of the U.S. taking control of the Arctic nation, which is a self-governing territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Trump said that he trusts his own gut on issues like Greenland.
“A lot of times, you can’t convince a voter,” he said. “You have to just do what’s right. And then a lot of the things I did were not really politically popular. They turned out to be when it worked out so well.”